Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...
An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around ...
From the ancient origins of zero to the paradox of motion, NOVA’s teaching resources immerse students in the wonder of math. ByKara Norton Thursday, December 1, 2022 NOVA EducationNOVA Education The ...
For nearly 100 years, the mysterious tablet has been referred to as Plimpton 322. It was first discovered in Iraq in the early 1900s by Edgar Banks, the American archaeologist on which the character ...
Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a ...
The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...